During my interview last night with 27-year CIA analyst Ray McGovern on the Mike Malloy Show (which I've been guest hosting all this week), the man who used to personally deliver the CIA's Presidential Daily Briefings to George Bush Sr. and Ronald Reagan, among other Presidents, offered an extraordinarily chilling thought --- particularly coming from someone with his background.

In a conversation at the end of the hour (audio and transcript below), as I was trying to pin him down for an opinion on whether or not he felt it was appropriate for CIA Director Leon Panetta to have reportedly attempted to block a lawful investigation into torture and other war crimes committed by the CIA, McGovern alluded to a book about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and noted he felt it likely that both Panetta and President Obama may have reason to fear certain elements of the CIA.

"Let me just leave you with this thought," he said, "and that is that I think Panetta, and to a degree President Obama, are afraid --- I never thought I'd hear myself saying this --- I think they're afraid of the CIA."...

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My week of guest hosting the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE from Los Angeles continues, and we've got a big show tonight, including the first airing of extended clips from the stunning recent deposition of formerly-gagged FBI translator turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds.

As ever, I'll be 'Bradcasting' from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT). Please join the conversation during the show in our new, handy-dandy chat room facility below.

Among our scheduled guests tonight...

• RAY MCGOVERN, retired 27-year CIA analyst, on torture investigations, the state of the CIA and its new director Leon Panetta, and much more.
• ERNEST HANCOCK, libertarian activist, radio host, and publisher of FreedomsPhoenix.com, on his having brought a gun to a recent Obama healthcare townhall in AZ.
• SIBEL EDMONDS, the former FBI translator turned whistleblower, as heard in extended clips from her recent, remarkable under-oath deposition, on the bribery and blackmail of current and former U.S. Congress members, stolen nuclear secrets and the infiltration of the U.S. government by agents of the Turkish government. Never before aired exclusive!
• Plus, the 'Green News Report' with DESI DOYEN, your calls at 877-520-1150, and whatever else comes up along the way...

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Click here to jump into our new LIVE Chat Room during the show, hosted by "Agent 99"! Or see below!...

POST-SHOW UPDATE AND AUDIO ARCHIVES: Wow. If I say so myself, that was a helluva show. Creepy as hell, on lord knows how many fronts.

Commercial-free archives from tonight's show are posted below, with thanks to the very busy Ben Burch from WhiteRose Society! The archives of tonight's Chat Room discussion from during the show, is also posted below. Enjoy 'em all and pass 'em on!...

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We'll be bringing you special live coverage of Obama's speech all night tonight, as I continue guest hosting this week's Mike Malloy Show LIVE from Los Angeles.

I'll be 'Bradcasting' from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT) with analysis, reaction and commentary on the President's health care address to a joint session of Congress.

Please join the conversation during the show in our new, handy-dandy chat room facility below (open during the speech and the show).

Among our scheduled guests tonight...

• IGOR VOLSKY, of Center for American Progress, contributor to the book Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer, on the latest in healthcare politics and fear.
• DAVID "D-DAY" DAYEN, of d-day, Calitics and Digby's Hullabaloo.
• HOWIE KLEIN, of Down With Tyranny and Huffington Post with us IN-STUDIO!
• DAVE JOHNSON, of Seeing the Forest, and a fellow Commonweal Institute Fellow.
• Plus, your calls at 877-520-1150, and whatever else comes up along the way...

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Click here to jump into our new LIVE Chat Room during the show, hosted by "Agent 99"! Or see below!... Opening chat room early, at 5p PT (8p ET) during Prez speech tonight!...

POST-SHOW UPDATE AND AUDIO ARCHIVES: Archives of our busy live special coverage are now posted below, with thanks to the very busy Ben Burch from WhiteRose Society! The archives of tonight's spirited Chat Room discussion, from during the show, and the President's speech just before it, is all below. Enjoy 'em all!...

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Welcome back from Labor Day! I'll be on the job again tonight, and each night this week, guest hosting The Mike Malloy Show LIVE from Los Angeles.

I'll be 'Bradcasting' LIVE from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT).

We've got a new chat room tool that we're using during the show, so please jump into the conversation (chat room live when the show begins) below.

Scheduled so far tonight...

• JANE HAMSHER, publisher of Firedoglake.com on the resignation of Van Jones, and the "Moment of Truth for Liberal Institituions in the Veal Pen". Plus a preview of Obama's healthcare speech tomorrow night.
• BEV HARRIS, founder of BlackBoxVoting.org on the anti-trust concerns in the sale of Diebold's e-voting division to election giant ES&S.
• MIKE ROGERS, publisher of PageOneQ.com and BlogActive.com, with another "Big Gay Hour", on his 'outing' of SC Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, Obama's (so far) failure on gay issues, and much more.
• Plus, DESI DOYEN with the 'Green News Report', my rants, your calls at 877-520-1150, and whatever else comes up along the way...

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Jump into our new LIVE Chat Room during the show, hosted by "Agent 99"! See below!...

POST-SHOW UPDATE AND AUDIO ARCHIVES: Archives are now posted below, with thanks to the very busy Ben Burch from WhiteRose Society! Also posted below is the lively Chat Room discussion from during the show. Enjoy 'em all!...

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As you return from your Labor Day festivities tonight, and for the rest of the week, we'll be on the air LIVE guest hosting The Mike Malloy Show again through Friday.

I'll be 'Bradcasting' LIVE from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT).

As usual, lots of great guests lining up for the week, and as much time as I can fit in for your calls (877-520-1150), my rants, etc. I'll also be trying out a new live CHAT ROOM tool here on The BRAD BLOG tonight during the show, so please stop by to participate while we're on the air (unless you're driving, of course).

Scheduled so far tonight...

• DAVID SWANSON, activist, organizer, creator of AfterDowningStreet.org, and author of the brand new (and top selling!) Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.
• KEVIN ZEESE of VotersForPeace.us and VelvetRevolution.us on torture, accountability and the DisbarTortureLawyers.com campaign.
• Plus, my rants (and I'm in the mood for plenty of them after this bit of shameful news over the weekend) your calls at 877-520-1150, and whatever else comes up along the way...

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

POST-SHOW UPDATE AND AUDIO ARCHIVES: Well that was a fast three hours! Archives are now posted below, with thanks to the very busy Ben Burch from WhiteRose Society! Also posted below is the lively Chat Room discussion from during the show...

Phil Giraldi, a former CIA counter-terrorism officer, is one of the few in the U.S. "mainstream" media (of a sort), who has bothered to cover --- and cover responsibly --- Sibel Edmonds' story in the past.

Today over at The American Conservative --- that's right, The American Conservative --- Giraldi notes this week's release of Edmonds' remarkable deposition video and transcript, appropriately under the headline "Sibel Edmonds Speaks, But No One is Listening"...

The other interview Giraldi refers to there is the one I did with Edmonds a month or so back while guest hosting the Mike Malloy Show. That one made mainstream news headlines around the world...except for in the U.S., of course, where it doesn't matter in the slightest...after Edmonds expert Luke Ryland covered what he described as the "bombshell" within it. (Links to the audio and the transcript of that interview at that last link.)

Giraldi, at The American Conservative --- did I mention his quick article was at The American Conservative? --- goes on to note that "Edmonds is a credible witness who is ignored by the mainstream media and congress because her tales, if true, would be devastating to both political parties and to the Israel and Turkish lobbies," and then asks: "Now that she has testified under oath and in considerable detail making very specific accusations isn't it time for someone in the administration to review the FBI files and stand up to say whether her accounts are true or not?"

Well, one would think that, no? Silly, one.

Scott Horton of AntiWar.com however, who has covered the Edmonds deposition earlier this week), interviews Giraldi about the Edmonds deposition today. That 26 minute interview can be heard online here. (They also speak a bit about Holder's recently announced torture investigation, and Giraldi, an actual conservative, as opposed to a fake one, as well as a former CIA analyst, believes the announced investigation does not go far enough.)

I hope to help encourage more coverage/investigation of the Edmonds story in the coming days, with some pieces in which I'll try to help the poor poor resource-less mainstream media out by putting the matter, and the deposition, into a few more accessible bite-size chunks for them. The way you might cut up a piece of steak for a child, I guess. Also, I've doing my best on the radio over the last couple of days to further help get the word out. (You can too, by Digging and Redditting and emailing etc. please!)

Here are a couple of those recent appearances. One on the Malloy Show on Tuesday, and another one yesterday, in studio on KPFK, our local Pacifica station here in Los Angeles, on Roseanne Barr's program (though she was off this week). Both radio interviews follow below, and the latter includes a bit of new news at the end which I haven't yet had time cover here on the blog, but hope to soon...

During my recent interview with FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds on the Mike Malloy Show, a caller had asked her opinion on whether she believed 9/11 to have been "an inside job."

Edmonds replied by first specifying "As I have done for the past 7 or 8 years, I have basically stuck with what I know, first-hand, directly, my own knowledge, based on my own experience, based on what I obtained, which is not a lot, but it is extremely important."

After explaining the difference between what she does and doesn't know first hand, she went on to explain: "I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11." ...

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Malloy is still down with a virus, so I'm in again tonight as Guest Host on the The Mike Malloy Show. I'll be 'Bradcasting' LIVE from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT). Hope you'll listen in, since I've decided it's "Accountability Friday"!

Since it's "Accountability Friday," whom do you hold most accountable for the unending mess we're in right now? Repubs, Dems, Media, Corporate America, American people who aren't doing enough about it, Teabagging Birthers, anyone else, all of the above? Give us a call tonight to name names at 877-520-1150, and/or speak up in comments on this Open Thread item!

Scheduled guests so far tonight...

• GLENN GREENWALD, master blogger, attorney and accountability expert from Salon's daily must-read Unclaimed Territory, and author of Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics.
• GREG PALAST, muckraking investigative BBC journalist, author of Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild and star of the new documentary video Greg Palast Investigates.
• DESI DOYEN, Co-host and managing editor of The BRAD BLOG's Green News Report, running on radio stations and websites around the country (and if it's not running on your station, call and write and ask them to add it! It's free!)

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Use this item for tonight's Open Show Thread, hosted, as always, by the ever-affable "Agent 99." See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: Sorry for the delay...Our good man Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org is working overtime, and was forced to wrestle with some technical demons today to boot! But we've now got the audio archives, all three "hours" (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, thanks to Ben) available below. Great guests, great calls on "Accountability Friday". Enjoy!...

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Malloy caught a bug, so he's asked me to fill in as Guest Host tonight and tomorrow on the The Mike Malloy Show. I'll be 'Bradcasting' LIVE tonight from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT). Hope you'll listen in!

Among our scheduled guests so far tonight...

• GOV. DON SIEGELMAN, former AL governor, free on appeal, and fighting outrageous political prosecution by Karl Rove and gang, as covered recently here...
• REP. DENNIS KUCINICH (D-OH), on the fate of progressive healthcare initiatives in Congress at this point.
• JOHN BONIFAZ, Legal Director of Voter Action on new initiative pushing for electoral reform in Congress.
• IGOR VOLSKY of Center for American Progress, contributor to the book Howard Dean’'s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer, on the latest in healthcare politics and fear.
• AKMUCKRAKER, master Alaskan blogger from The Mudflats and Huffington Post, on the ethics, or lack thereof, of Sarah Palin, Alaska's soon-to-be-former Governor.

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

This item will be tonight's Open Show Thread, hosted, as always, by the never-cranky Agent 99. See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: Well that was a lively show!

Audio archives of all three "hours" (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, courtesy of Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org) follow below...and are worth listening to, again, and again, and again, sez me. Enjoy!...

We missed last night's Daily Show, but thanks to the alert Megan Carpentier at Jezebel, we see that BRAD BLOG commenter "Roger" was quoted in reply to Sen. Linsdey Graham (R-SC)'s ingenious use of anonymous Internet slams on Sonia Sotomayor to attack her during her Senate oversight hearings this week...

Well done, Roger! Good anonymous name-calling! We couldn't be prouder.

Please check out my editorial in response to the Franken election, as published at the UK's Guardian yesterday just after the MN Supreme Court verdict. Here's a taste...

Check out the whole thing, if only for some of the whacky comments posted by some of the wingnut dead-enders over there. One of them, "MikeMichigan" wrote in response to my piece, channeling every nutball with a primetime show over in Crazy Land (aka Fox "News")...

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I finish up my week-long Guest Host stint on the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE tonight, Bradcasting from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT). My great thanks to Mike and Kathy Malloy for allowing me to make noise on his loud microphone from coast to coast all week!

Scheduled guests for tonight's show include:

• MARCY WHEELER, author and master blogger at the indispensable emptywheel blog, on all matters of Bush Administration corruption, whether we'll ever see accountability under Obama, and the sorry state of our mainstream corporate media. (Marcy was appropriately recognized today in Dan Froomkin's final column for WaPo for her "fine investigative blogging".)
• ELLEN THEISEN, founder of VotersUnite.org and publisher of the 'Daily Voting News' on Rep. Holt's election reform bill in the U.S. House, and other late election integrity issues.
• BARRY KENDALL, Executive Director of the progressive Commonweal Institute, on their new Fellows and Progressive op/ed program.
• SUE WILSON, filmmaker of Broadcast Blues, the new documentary on the epic fail of the corporate media, the rise of hate-speech radio and more!

PLUS: Today's breaking news (including an update from DESI DOYEN on the Climate Change battle on the House floor today), my rants, your calls (877-520-1150) and anything damn other thing we feel like!

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

This item will be tonight's Open Show Thread, hosted, as always, by the ever-affable "Agent 99". See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: I had a great week, and a lot of fun. Thanks again Mike & Kathy! Tonight's finale, I believe, was great as well. The audio archives for all three "hours" (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, courtesy of Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org) follow below. Have fun...

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I'm Guest Hosting the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE again tonight and all week from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT) each night. Please tune in and call in!

Tonight's scheduled guests so far include:

• COLEEN ROWLEY, the 9/11 FBI whistleblower and TIME's 2002 "Person of the Year" on her attempts to warn the media (even 60 Minutes) against the rush to war in Iraq. (See her BRAD BLOG article on that today right here...)
• ANDREW KREIG, journalist and attorney on his investigation into the Siegelman prosecution, and tomorrow's D.C. press conference/forum calling for a DoJ investigation into prosecutorial misconduct.
• MARK KARLIN, creator and publisher of BuzzFlash.com on the state of the independent alternative media in the Age of Obama.
• BOB KINCAID, West Virginia host of Head-On with Bob Kincaid, on recent arrests during non-violent protests against mountaintop removal by big coal companies.

PLUS: Today's breaking news, my rants, your calls (877-520-1150) and a LIVE 'Green News Report' w/ DESI DOYEN!

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Consider this an Open Show Thread, where, as always, "Agent 99" will be your cordial hostess throughout the proceedings. See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: Lots of good stuff in tonight's show. Dig in. All three "hours" (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, courtesy of Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org) follow below for your archival listening pleasure...

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I'm Guest Hosting the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE again tonight and all week from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT) each night. Please tune in and call in!

Tonight's scheduled guests so far include:

• SIBEL EDMONDS, the FBI translator/whistleblower, described by the ACLU as the "most gagged" woman in the history of this country following the Bush Administration's use of the "State Secrets Privilege" in keeping her from exposing corruption learned while a translator at the FBI after 9/11. On that, her new blog, her new project "Project Expose MSM", and anything else you want to ask her about!
• DAVID SWANSON, peace activist on Thursday's "Torture Accountability Day"

PLUS: Today's breaking news (Welcome home Gov. Sanford!), my rants & your calls (877-520-1150) (Later this week: Coleen Rowley, Marcy Wheeler and more!)

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Consider this an Open Show Thread, where, as always, "Agent 99" will be your friendly hostess throughout. See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: I hope you'll enjoy the audio archives of tonight's show, as much as I enjoyed making them for you. All three "hours" (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, courtesy of Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org) provide some good listening, and follow below...

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I'm Guest Hosting the The Mike Malloy Show LIVE again tonight and all week from L.A.'s KTLK am1150 from 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT) each night. Please tune in and call in!

Tonight's scheduled guests so far include:

• ED ASNER, the legendary TV icon and progressive political champion joins us to discuss his new smash Pixar film Up and whatever else Mr. Grant has on his mind.
• ANDY WORTHINGTON, journalist and historian, and author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison

PLUS: Today's news, my rants & your calls (877-520-1150) and DESI DOYEN with the Green News Report! (Later this week: Sibel Edmonds, Coleen Rowley, Marcy Wheeler and more!)

Malloy's show is nationally syndicated on a number of air affiliates around the country, also on Sirius Ch. 146 & XM Ch. 167, or listen to the free online stream here or here!

Consider this an Open Show Thread, where, as always, "Agent 99" will be your very polite hostess throughout. See ya tonight!

POST-SHOW UPDATE, AUDIO ARCHIVES: We had a really interesting and fun show, if I do say so myself. The audio archives for all three "hours" (about :36 mins each with commercials removed, courtesy of Ben Burch at WhiteRoseSociety.org) follow below...